Preserve pandas nullable types in dtype= arguments#21499
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Towards #21229
One of the 2 large changes to natively support pandas extension types in cuDF now possible that we consistently use the
ColumnBase.createAPI to preserve pandas extension types -dtypearguments will now pass through extension types instead of coercing them to numpy types in thedef dtypefunction.DatetimeTZColumnto be more accommodating topandas.ArrowDtypeto pass the cudf tests suite.pandas.StringDtype(storage="pyarrow")type if pyarrow is installed even with pandas < 2. I turned off this feature in some tests, as what is already done in other tests, and I expect we should be able to remove this with pandas 3 support when that string type is the default.conftest-patch.pyappear to be largely due to column APIs not entire resolving the resulting dtype correctly still (likeDatetimeColumn.strftime. Those improvement can be in a follow up.The next change will be to preserve input data that are pandas objects with extension types.
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